Ask Shoshanna: the Advice Column

Ask Shoshanna: the Advice Column is a book containing my first year of columns - available now on Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble for only 99 cents!

Here's the introduction to the book:

Ask Shoshanna is a weekly syndicated newspaper advice column in New York. I give a lot of advice about relationships, love, and health because I'm a wife, mother, and registered nurse. You'll probably see yourself in many of these questions—I know I do.

And if you can't imagine ever having a problem like the one you're reading about, then feel free to read it for entertainment value. You wouldn't believe some of the pickles people get themselves into.

Since a lot of the questions are almost universal problems, I'm hoping that the advice will be useful to you in your everyday life. For example, I answer questions like:
Does this mean our relationship is over?Will I lose weight doing this?My best friend ditched me for other friendsDo I need to get the flu shot?
And so on. You can check out the Table of Contents and skip around if you like, or read them all in order. I recommend reading even the questions you think don't apply to you, because the answer might surprise you – or make you laugh. Whichever.

The column has been written under another name (another title, actually) since I was working as an RN and didn't want people to know I also wrote sexy romance novels under the name Shoshanna Evers. Um, make that very sexy romance novels. Blush-worthy.

As Shoshanna, I've often mentioned my advice column on Twitter and Facebook, but without mentioning what newspapers it was in or what it was really called.

Enough of my readership has emailed me out of curiosity about the column that I figured it might be fun to put all of my columns from my first year as a columnist together into a book. It's also been rather difficult maintaining four separate identities – the private me, the nurse me, the advice columnist me, and the romance author me. I need to consolidate and just be Shoshanna Evers.

I worry a bit about losing some of my advice column readers when I "come out" as Shoshanna, but who knows? Some of the readers who like my advice might also like to read romance!

I'm not worried anymore about people who know me as an RN knowing I'm Shoshanna Evers for two reasons:

1. Nurses love romance novels
2. I recently "retired" from nursing to be a full-time author. Yay!

Disclaimer: I may be a nurse but I'm not *your* nurse and I'm not a doctor. None of my advice should be mistaken for medical advice and it's not a substitute for seeing a health professional in person, or a mental health professional as the case may be. If you read this book or my column you're agreeing that any consequences from taking my advice are not my fault, the fault of the newspapers that carried the column, and so on …Gosh, I'm so legal. Anyhoo…

If you want to send a question to Ask Shoshanna, email me at shoshanna.evers@ yahoo. com (no spaces) and put Question for Ask Shoshanna in the subject line. I'll keep your question anonymous and give you some darn good advice. That's my job! ;)

And if you feel like seeing what sorts of stories I write (assuming you're an adult, since they tend to be (ahem) spicy), check out my website at www.ShoshannaEvers.com.

Oh, and in case you're wondering—yes, that's me on the book cover.

Ask Shoshanna: the Advice Column is available now on Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble for only 99 cents!